• Affordances of spreadsheets in mathematical investigation: Potentialities for learning 

  Calder, Nigel Stuart (Bond University, 2010)

  This article, is concerned with the ways learning is shaped when mathematics problems are investigated in spreadsheet environments. It considers how the opportunities and constraints the digital media affords influenced ...

  

• Forming conjectures within a spreadsheet environment 

  Calder, Nigel Stuart; Brown, Tony; Hanley, Una; Derby, Susan (M E R G A, 2006)

  This paper is concerned with the use of spreadsheets within mathematical investigational tasks. Considering the learning of both children and pre-service teaching students, it examines how mathematical phenomena can be ...

  

• How might the use of apps influence students' learning experiences? Exploring a socio-technological assemblage 

  Calder, Nigel Stuart; Murphy, Carol (MERGA, 2017)

  In this paper, we report on primary-school students’ views of their learning experiences when they engaged with mathematical phenomena through apps. The students commented on how they used a range of digital tools within ...

  

• Impact of environmental education on beginning preservice teachers’ environmental literacy 

  Dada, Deborah O.; Eames, Chris W.; Calder, Nigel Stuart (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017)

  One of the goals of environmental education is the development of environ- mental literacy. The development of environmental literacy for preservice teachers is critical if they are to be con dent and competent to deliver ...

  

• Implementing dialogic inquiry in Qatari mathematics and science classrooms: Challenges and provocations 

  Murphy, Carol; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah; Calder, Nigel Stuart; Mansour, Nasser (WIlf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2018)

  In relation to an international concern to encourage inquiry-based pedagogies in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and the issues of transfer in teacher professional development (PD), we report ...

  

• Professional learning in mathematics with primary-trained teachers: A flipped approach 

  Stensness, Angela Dorothy (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Teachers of mathematics in New Zealand are critical to the success of their students. In order for teachers to improve student outcomes, it is important for them to have the necessary skills and knowledge relating to ...

  

• Evaluation of environmental literacy of pre-service teachers in New Zealand 

  Dada, Oluwaseun Deborah (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Environmental education (EE) has been recognized as a vital tool that could help to alleviate the prevailing environmental and sustainability issues facing our world today. One of the goals of environmental education (EE) ...

  

• In what ways do the perceptions of connectedness of Māori students in Alternative Education secondary schools affect their self-efficacy within the learning environment? 

  Lemon, Katrina Suezanne (University of Waikato, 2017)

  This study has sought to identify connectedness for Māori students within the alternative-education, learning environment and the effect this has had on their self-efficacy. Alternative education in New Zealand is described ...

  

• The ‘iPadagogy’ of Reading: Exploring the influence iPads have on student achievement and perceived learning and engagement in middle school reading. 

  Roser, Monique (University of Waikato, 2016)

  The increase in accessibility and demand for portable computers and tablets has seen literacy in schools begin a metamorphic transformation. This change has, and still is, driven by the advances in modern digital technology ...

  

• A Changing Perspective: leading and learning in new ways 

  Woodward, Phillipa Jean (University of Waikato, 2016)

  Schools are learning places, tasked with providing rich, meaningful and diverse learning experiences for all of its’ learners. Educational leaders are facing increasing challenges and demands to become more responsive to ...

  

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